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a few branches on the lower part; branches more slendej*^ ralJior 

 densely leafy throughout, very minutely pul>erulous ; leaves alter- 

 nate, very spreading or slightly dellexed, subpetiolate, somewhat 

 rigid J 3-6 lin. long, g-H Hu. broad, lanceolate, acute, souaewhat 

 pungently mucronate, veinless, except for the midrib, glabrous on 

 both sides; umbel 3-5-rayed ; i-ays ^-4*- in, long, simple or once- 

 branched, sometimes naked below the flowering-1)racts, with the 

 whorl of bracts at the base like the flowering-bracts, .sometimes 

 bearing several alternate leaves like those on the stem or with two 

 pairs of opposite barren flowering bracts besides those under the 

 tiowers and the whorl of bracts at the base of the umbel lanceolate 

 and nearly like the stem-leaves; flowering-bracts l|-2l lin. long, 

 *^2-3 lin. broad, very broadly deltoid-ovate, acute, or subrcniform- 

 ovate and very abruptly and shortly acute, glabrous on both sides ; 

 involucre about 1 1- lin. in diam,, cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 

 glands and 5 oblong minutely toothed lobes; glands ^-5 lin. in 

 their greater diani., transverse, somewhat crescent-shaped with a 

 horn at each end ; capsule 1^-11 Hn. in diam., glabrous, very 

 obtusely three-lobed, glabrous, exserted | lin. beyond the involucre 

 on a curved pedicel ; styles fiee, widely spreading from their base, 

 t Hn. long, bifid at the apex ; seeds 1 lin. long, ellipsoid, smootlj, 

 dark brown. 



Coast Region : Albany Div. ; Brookliuisens Valley, near GrahamstoWDj 

 ^lacOican, 329 ! 642 ! near Grahamatown, Glass, 665 ! 



30. E. ericoides (Lam. Encycl. ii. 430) ; plant 6-1 S in. high, probably 

 branching at the base; stems or branches erect, .somewliat woody, 

 2^1 2 hn. thick, often branching in a whorled or subumbellate 

 nianner, leafy throughout or naked at the base, glabrous; leaves 

 crowded, alteiMiate, reflexed, with their tips upcurvcd, sessile, 1^-6 

 hn. long, ^-\ lin. broad, linear, with revolute margins, truncate and 

 mucronate or minutely 3-toothed at the apex, glabrous; umbel 

 terminal, sometimes head like and \~% in. in diam., with exceedingly 

 short rays, at others 1-2 in. in diam., with rays ^-1| in. Ion 



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I'ays once or twice forked, glabrous; bracts 2-3 lin. long, 2^-5 lin. 

 broad, transversely rhomboid, obtuse and sliglitly notched at the 

 apex, with a minute apiculus in the notch, glabrous; involucre 

 H^H li^- hi diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4 glands and 5 

 oblong lobes truncate and minutely toothed at the apex; glands 

 |-^ lin. in their greater diam., transverse, more or less crescent- 

 ^liaped, with a short horn at each end and the horns sometimes 

 straight, sometimes incurved; capsule about 2 lin. in diam., 

 glabrous, exserted on a recurved or finally erect pedicel l|-2i 

 Hn. long; styles -^-| lin. long, free, subentire or minutely notched 

 at the apex ; seeds about 1 lin. long, elliptic-oblong, black or dark 

 gt'ey, with a small yellow caruncle. Spremjl Si/st. Veg, iii. 797; 

 ^om. in Da Prodr, xv. ii. 168, and le. Eu^lorK 23, /. 111. Titliy- 

 ^mhs conferfus: KloizscJi d' Garde in Ahhandl AJ:ad, Berlin, 



I860, 91 ' :■ 



